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Estimates for total, commercial sector, industrial sector, residential sector, and transportation sector per capita energy consumption for the United States.

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The Energy Information
Administration (EIA) is a statistical agency
of the U.S.
Department of Energy. EIA conducts statistical surveys
of energy producers, businesses, transporters, and other users; analyzes
issues about energy including economics, technology, energy production,
prices, distribution, storage, consumption, and environmental effects;
and produces forecasts of supply, consumption, prices, and other
important factors. These policy-independent data, forecasts, and analyses
are used to promote sound policy making, efficient markets, and public
understanding regarding energy and its interaction with the economy and
the environment.

Results of the EIA surveys were compiled in the State
Energy Data 2001 tables, which provide annual time series estimates of State-level energy
consumption, prices and expenditures for four major economic sectors and
for all the sectors combined.

The residential sector consists of living quarters for private households,
but excludes institutional living quarters. Common uses of energy associated
with this sector include space heating, water heating, air conditioning,
lighting, refrigeration, cooking, and running a variety of other appliances.

The commercial sector consists of service-providing facilities and equipment
for businesses; Federal, State, and local governments; and other private
and public organizations, such as religious, social, or fraternal groups.
Included are institutional living quarters and sewage treatment facilities.
Common uses of energy associated with this sector include space heating,
water heating, air conditioning, lighting, refrigeration, cooking, and
running a wide variety of other equipment. It also includes generators
that produce electricity and/or useful thermal output primarily to support
the activities of the above-mentioned commercial establishments.

The industrial sector consists of all facilities and equipment used
for producing, processing, or assembling goods. It encompasses manufacturing;
agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting; mining, including oil and
gas extraction; natural gas distribution; and construction. Overall energy
use in this sector is largely for heat needed for industrial processes
and for cooling and powering machinery, with lesser amounts used for facility
heating, air conditioning, and lighting. Fossil fuels are also used as
raw material inputs to manufactured products. This sector includes generators
that produce electricity and/or useful thermal output primarily to support
the above-mentioned industrial activities.

The transportation sector consists of all vehicles used for transporting
people and/or goods from one physical location to another. Included are
automobiles; trucks; buses; motorcycles; trains, subways, and other rail
vehicles; aircraft; and ships, barges, and other waterborne vehicles.

The Energy Consumption - Estimated Energy per Capita, 1960-2001 map
layer provide estimates for total, commercial sector, industrial
sector, residential sector, and transportation sector per capita
energy consumption. It was compiled by the National Atlas of the
United States® from
information provided by EIA. The map layer consists of five databases,
one for each sector, that include per capita energy consumption estimates
for each of the 50 individual States, for the District of Columbia,
and in aggregate for the United States, for the years 1960 to 2001.
The estimates are given in British Thermal Units (Btu). A Btu is
the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 pound of liquid
water 1 degree Fahrenheit at the temperature at which water has its greatest
density (approximately 39 degrees Fahrenheit). For more energy statistics
for the United States, see the EIA
Home Page.

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